Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with the she - wolf's teat , Wintered with the hawk and fox , Power and speed be hands and feet . II . SELF - RELIANCE . ― I READ the.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cast the bantling on the rocks , Suckle him with the she - wolf's teat , Wintered with the hawk and fox , Power and speed be hands and feet . II . SELF - RELIANCE . ― I READ the.
Page 49
... hands , predominating in all their being . And we are now men , and must ac- cept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but ...
... hands , predominating in all their being . And we are now men , and must ac- cept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner , not cowards fleeing before a revolution , but ...
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... hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines . With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do . He may as well concern himself ...
... hand of the harlot , and flee . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines . With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do . He may as well concern himself ...
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... hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide ; him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did ...
... hands . Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self - helping man . For him all doors are flung wide ; him all tongues greet , all honors crown , all eyes follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did ...
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... hand - mill and bake his bread himself . " Society is a wave . The wave moves onward , but the water of which it is composed does not . The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge . Its unity is only phenomenal . The ...
... hand - mill and bake his bread himself . " Society is a wave . The wave moves onward , but the water of which it is composed does not . The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge . Its unity is only phenomenal . The ...
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